{"id":16961,"date":"2024-11-21T15:39:30","date_gmt":"2024-11-21T16:39:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=16961"},"modified":"2024-11-21T17:26:18","modified_gmt":"2024-11-21T17:26:18","slug":"first-close-up-picture-of-star-outside-our-galaxy-shows-a-giant-about-to-blow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=16961","title":{"rendered":"First Close Up Picture of Star Outside Our Galaxy Shows a Giant About to Blow"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Astronomers zoomed in on a stellar behemoth in the Larger Magellanic Cloud, a galaxy that orbits about 160,000 light-years from the Milky Way.<\/p>\n

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In a stunning scientific and technological feat, a group of astronomers said Thursday that it had managed to take the first close-up picture of a star in another galaxy. Not only was the image a distance record for such cosmic intimacy, but the star, bulging like an overripe fruit, looks as if it is getting ready to explode.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor the first time, we have succeeded in taking a zoomed-in image of a dying star in a galaxy outside our own Milky Way,\u201d Keiichi Ohnaka, an astrophysicist from Andr\u00e9s Bello National University in Chile, said in a news release from the European Southern Observatory, an international collaboration that runs a phalanx of powerful telescopes in Chile.<\/p>\n

Dr. Ohnaka and colleagues described their observations<\/a> in the journal <\/em>Astronomy and Astrophysics.<\/p>\n

The star goes by the name of WOH G64. It is in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a small galaxy that orbits the Milky Way at a distance of about 160,000 light-years and is visible as a large cloud of light in the Southern Hemisphere. The L.M.C. was the site of the last great supernova explosion witnessed by astronomers in 1987, an event known as SN1987a<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Observations with a spacecraft called the Infrared Astronomical Satellite in the 1980s revealed that WOH G64, once thought to be cool and dim, is actually the most luminous red supergiant star in that galaxy, a behemoth at least 2,000 times bigger than the sun.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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An artist\u2019s reconstruction of WOH G64. The star, first observed in the 1980s, is at least 25 times as massive as the sun and 2,000 times bigger.<\/span>L. Cal\u00e7ada\/European Southern Observatory<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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When such big stars finally run out of the thermonuclear fuel that keeps their inner fires burning, their cores collapse. Some particularly massive stars vanish without further ado into black holes. But others rebound and explode as supernovas, spewing newly created elements into space to seed new stars and planets before settling into their final states as black holes or tiny dense neutron stars.<\/p>\n

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Astronomers zoomed in on a stellar behemoth in the Larger Magellanic Cloud, a galaxy that orbits about 160,000 light-years from the Milky Way.In a stunning scientific and technological feat, a group of astronomers said Thursday that it had managed to take the first close-up picture of a star in another galaxy. Not only was the image a distance record for such cosmic intimacy, but the star, bulging like an overripe fruit, looks as if it is getting ready to explode.\u201cFor the first time, we have succeeded in taking a zoomed-in image of a dying star in a galaxy outside our own Milky Way,\u201d Keiichi Ohnaka, an astrophysicist from Andr\u00e9s Bello National University in Chile, said in a news release from the European Southern Observatory, an international collaboration that runs a phalanx of powerful telescopes in Chile.Dr. Ohnaka and colleagues described their observations in the journal Astronomy and Astrophysics.The star goes by the name of WOH G64. It is in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a small galaxy that orbits the Milky Way at a distance of about 160,000 light-years and is visible as a large cloud of light in the Southern Hemisphere. The L.M.C. was the site of the last great supernova explosion witnessed by astronomers in 1987, an event known as SN1987a.Observations with a spacecraft called the Infrared Astronomical Satellite in the 1980s revealed that WOH G64, once thought to be cool and dim, is actually the most luminous red supergiant star in that galaxy, a behemoth at least 2,000 times bigger than the sun.An artist\u2019s reconstruction of WOH G64. The star, first observed in the 1980s, is at least 25 times as massive as the sun and 2,000 times bigger.L. Cal\u00e7ada\/European Southern ObservatoryWhen such big stars finally run out of the thermonuclear fuel that keeps their inner fires burning, their cores collapse. Some particularly massive stars vanish without further ado into black holes. But others rebound and explode as supernovas, spewing newly created elements into space to seed new stars and planets before settling into their final states as black holes or tiny dense neutron stars.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16963,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16961"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16964,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16961\/revisions\/16964"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}